Not with me, madam!

Movie
Original title	Not with me, madam!
Country of production	GDR
original language	German
Publishing year	1969
length	94 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Lothar Warneke , Roland Oehme
script	Rolf Römer , Wolfgang Ebeling
production	DEFA , "Red Circle" group
music	Klaus Lenz
camera	Peter Krause , Hans-Joachim Reinicke
cut	Ursula Zweig
occupation
Rolf Römer : Thomas, Padre Annekathrin Bürger : Mabel Patrick Krystyna Mikołajewska : Eva Rolf Herricht : Hasselhuhn Milivoje Popović-Mavid : Menzano Etta Cameron : Carol X Enrico Bonaterra  : Othello Alfredo Lugo : Cesare Peter Dommisch : Bob Milan Bosiljčić : Bill Edwin Marian : Josef Annemarie Brodhagen : team boss Bogić Bošković : taxi driver Manfred Krug : Worker unloading traffic signs; Construction crew leader; Doorman; Passer-by wiping his neck; Eva's uncle; female guest; Waiter in cafe; Waiter at the feast; Camera operator; Shepherd; Black; Gypsy violinist; Flight captain Karin Beewen : barmaid Monika Reeh : girls Marie-Lore Walter : Mannequin Ingrid Lungwitz : Mannequin Birgit Hegewald : Mannequin Elizabeth Grabacs : Mannequin

Not with me, madam! is a German confusion film from DEFA by Roland Oehme and Lothar Warneke from 1969.

action

Journalist Thomas travels with a group of fashion designers and models as well as the photographer Hasselhuhn from the GDR to an international fashion festival. On the flight he made the acquaintance of a padre who looked very much like him. Shortly after landing, he is soon followed by Italians and British alike, without knowing why. The Englishwoman Mabel Patrick also seems to confuse him, goes into his hotel room at night and secretly searches it. The only distraction Thomas finds out is the beautiful Eva, with whom he tries to meet several times, which in turn is always prevented by her uncle.

On the day of the fashion shows, Eva is kidnapped by Mabel's people and Thomas lured into Eva's apartment. He is received by Mabel, who threatens him with a gun. She tells him the reason for all the strange things: she thinks he is the young French fashion designer Charles, whom Thomas met as a padre on the plane. He plans to bring a Parisian fashion house back to the top of the world with an anti-Florege clothing line, which was shocked by the Florege-specialized fashion houses in Rome and London . Thomas is supposed to be recruited by the London fashion house, to which Mabel belongs. He manages to escape.

Meanwhile, Eva was freed by Charles and has been swallowed up since then. Thomas, the models and Hasselhuhn take the flight back to Berlin, while the Roman and British pursuers are put out of action by various car accidents. Thomas learns through a letter that Charles never planned an anti-Florege line, it was just a false rumor. He finally meets Eva on the plane, who actually works as a stewardess and is regularly in Berlin. It comes to a happy ending.

production

Not with me, madam! had its world premiere on May 16, 1969 in Karl-Marx-Stadt .

The film was the directorial debut of Roland Oehme and Lothar Warneke and the debut of Rolf Römers as a screenwriter. Apart from the movie Hey, You! , in which she was a song interpreter - the only acting appearance of the American jazz singer Etta Cameron in a DEFA film.

Krystyna Mikołajewska was dubbed in the film by Zofia Słaboszowska . Manfred Krug took on numerous supporting roles in various masquerades, including as a woman, black and gypsy violinist.

The film was shot in Yugoslavia .

The fashion designer Heinz Bormann and his company “Original Bormann Clothing” in Magdeburg received the order for the costume design for this film .

criticism

Contemporary critics praised the film as “cheerful, it happily audiences”, but criticized the fact that the film, as a mix of gangster film, romance film and comedy, lacks the consistent tone. Later reviewers found that "the young directors [...] still lacked a sense of rhythm."

Cinema wrote: “A haute couture event becomes confusing. - Confused fashion circus. "

literature

• F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 410-411 .

Web links

• Not with me, madam! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Not with me, madam! at filmportal.de
• Not with me, madam! at the DEFA Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ film-zeit.de: Not with me, madam! ( Memento of the original from February 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ https://www.volksstimme.de/lokal/schoenebeck/schau-film-filmstar-bormann-mode , accessed on June 13, 2020
3. ↑ http://defa-filmfreund.de/Filmkostueme/ , accessed on June 13, 2020
4. ↑ Friedrich Salow in Filmspiegel , No. 13, 1969.
5. ^ Rolf Richter (ed.): DEFA feature film directors and their critics . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1981, p. 108.
6. ↑ Not with me, madam! In: Cinema . Hubert Burda Media , accessed on August 4, 2018 .